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Published: 5 July 2007

Pick of the Indies

BETTER known for his spiky documentaries – think The Leader, His Wife and His Driver’s Wife or Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam – Nick Broomfield turned his hand to drama last year with Ghosts.
The film re-enacts the events leading up to the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, when 23 Chinese cockle-pickers lost their lives.
In doing so, it exposes a world too often ignored – an invisible migrant workforce toiling for a pittance in factories, restaurants and warehouses around the country.
The film is being shown at the Institute of Education on Saturday as part of the Marxism 2007 festival of resistance and will be followed by a Q&A with Broomfield.
For more info, call 020 7819 1190 or go to www.marxismfestival. org.uk

THE 27th Cambridge Film Festival comes to the Curzon Soho for this first time from Friday with another eclectic collection of world cinema.
Look out for Axel Schill’s doc feature The Man who Shot Chinatown, or the Mexican farmer boy John A Alonzo who became a hugely influential cinematographer, and The Elephant King, Seth Grossman’s award-winning debut feature about two very different brothers.
The festival finishes next Sunday (July 15). For more information, call the box office on 0870 756 4620 or go to www.curzoncinemas. com
Sunita Rappai

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